Kids [1996]

I suppose the reason I love this film is because not only is it gritty, shocking and real, but it manages to be predictable and painful at the same time. Inevitability, is the better word, for what happens at the end. I think the box's description of 'a day when everything and nothing will change' is spot on.


average   October 26, 2005
Jessica C. Taylor
12 out of 28 found this review helpful

i was really disappointed by this film. id heard it was amazing, rushed out to watch it and thought it was pretty average/

this is the film- boy has aids. sleeps with girl. she gets aids. sleeps with boy. he gets aids and so on and so on

it barely touches on how they feel about it,the effect of it all. the main guy (the one who likes virgins) i could barely understand what he was saying. this film IS contraversial IS shocking but ISNT particularly good. topic could have been handled so much better.


Gritty but Excellent   March 26, 2006
12 out of 13 found this review helpful

It's about kids sleeping around, getting in fights, and stealing. You won't like it, right? Wrong. This is an awesome film, set from the point of view of a bunch of kids growing up in your average American city. They're bored, so they did what a lot of us did or wanted to do.

The best part about this film is the way it tries not to judge the kids, merely to document how they live. You're not going to get Bruce Willis turning up to catch these young criminals on the job. On the other hand, one of them gets the ultimate come-uppance right at the end, and you can't tell me you don't think he deserved it?


Life's backstage uncovered   December 13, 2001
11 out of 17 found this review helpful

The film represents one of those mentally hard to watch movies that depresses the viewer with its real life existance. If you are still wearing pink glasses that movies will take them off.
The scene is set in New York city and the plot reveals ignorance of teenagers in so many aspects of life, howere most impotantly sex. It shows so common obsession of kids with sex as if it was a fashionable hobby meaning of wich is unknown to them, and consequences are not even imagined. However, movie does contain interesting and contadicting views of both sexes on various aspects of life.
I found it very educating not only for parents but for teenagers as well. Moreover, I think that this movie should be available to a younger public than the age restriction for the movie is.


A not-so-healthy slice o' life   August 4, 2003
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

When I was watching "Kids" for the first time, I was thinking: are there really kids living like this? The answer is probably yes. It seems like they don't know any better. At the end of the movie at least one of the characters seems to realise what he was doing with his life, and most likely learned from his experience(s).
The movie was a real eye-opener. Many (parents, for example) will label it a "difficult" movie because of all the violence and the sex scenes... granted, not for all eyes & ears. But the fact is, things like scenes in this movie happen every day, somewhere on the planet. Don't close your eyes for them.
The dynamics of this movie really made me think of what makes personae in a movie tick... It's not just an action movie, or a thriller, or a science fiction movie. You really zoom in on the characters (and their actions, motives, passions) more than anything else.
And as long as you're reading: if you like the music in the movie, I'd suggest you buy the excellent soundtrack, mostly containing tracks by The Folk Implosion.